Post Office Construction To Start This Summer In Wekiva Area

LONGWOOD — Construction is expected to begin early this summer on a new post office building in the Wekiva-Sabal Point area.

The U.S. Postal Service is accepting bids for construction of the 18,300- square-foot building, which will be on 4.6 acres on Wekiva Springs Road, just south of Sabal Palm Drive.

Bids will be opened April 30 in Tampa and work on the site is expected to begin within a month after that. The post office is expected to be ready for occupancy by spring 1987.

Even though the post office will carry a Longwood address, it is well outside the city and is in the Wekiva-Sabal Point area. The post office actually will be closer to Altamonte Springs.

Although the new post office is intended to handle all mail business for the Longwood area west of Interstate 4, it is expected to do little to relieve the customer load and parking congestion at the main Longwood post office on County Road 427. That is because customers west of I-4 already have access to a contract post office at Springs Plaza.

Architect for the project is Vickrey/Ovresat/Awsumb Associates Inc., Orlando.